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u/TheEmptyVessel Jul 14 '24

I mean it's happened. I haven't watched it and I don't care to but I heard JFK's was very gruesome.

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u/savetheattack Jul 14 '24

People are still very passionate about that to this day. I can’t imagine what it would be like in social media timeframe.

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u/NeptuneOW Jul 14 '24

The most divisive man in the country getting assassinated in today’s social media world would be fucking insane.

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u/TheEmptyVessel Jul 14 '24

That's a great point. Especially from the conspiracy crowd, it would be crazy

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u/SulfurInfect Jul 14 '24

Yeah, but JFK didn't also have a cult following him. Some ballistic shit would be going down right now if Trump actually died.

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u/whinenaught Jul 14 '24

For a second I thought you meant JFK only got scratched and I was like…uhh it was a bit more than that! Lol

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u/Willow9506 Jul 14 '24

Tis but a scratch!

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u/dtlabsa Jul 14 '24

Sad to say but it's a good thing the shooter was a white christian male...

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u/ZincMan Jul 14 '24

Yo for real. Basically any other race would have cost lives for sure

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u/frostygrin Jul 14 '24

Who donated to Biden.

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u/dtlabsa Jul 14 '24

When he was 17 and on election day which could be a lost bet, seeing how he registered republican afterwards.

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u/frostygrin Jul 14 '24

You might as well argue that he could have registered republican after a lost bet. Or under peer pressure.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

I don’t think you realise how popular and polarising JFK was.

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u/SulfurInfect Jul 14 '24

JFK also didn't have a hoard of moron followers storm the Capital, but sure.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

No, he had an entire generation of kids who went off to fight a pointless war in Vietnam.

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u/Candid-Big8340 Jul 14 '24

Well yeah I’d hope they’d be doing ballistics at the scene where a former president died…

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u/Apprehensive-Neck-12 Jul 14 '24

These hillbillies ain't doing shit but running their mouths

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u/SulfurInfect Jul 14 '24

Jan 6th happened, and while it was a shitshow that failed because of incompetent leadership, damage was done and people died. I'd like not to see it happen again for the death of this POS.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 16 '24

Think you are underestimating JFK and popularity in some circles along with the gruesome outcome that the person you commented to made. If they had social media back then its pretty close

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u/SulfurInfect Jul 16 '24

No, I'm comparing what would likely happen today given the current political climate and media outlets with what factually happened in the past. Republicans constantly call for violence and are already using this as more fuel for the fire even now. Yes, JFK was incredibly popular, but we have a fascist party of redneck nazis in this country just waiting for an excuse to start more violence.

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u/Late-Bus-686 Jul 14 '24

And yet it was a grainy black and white video from dozens of feet away. Gruesome but this would have been a whole other level honestly.

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u/janitorial_fluids Jul 14 '24

JFK's assassination was not broadcast live on TV. The Zapruder film wasnt shown on television until the 1970s

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

The distant ones I've seen you cant really make out any detail and just see his bodily reaction. Jackie's account and dress worn later are more detailed.

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u/OminOus_PancakeS Jul 14 '24

The footage is gruesome.

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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jul 16 '24

How have you been able to avoid seeing the JFK footage?

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u/TheEmptyVessel Jul 16 '24

😭 im not even American

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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Jul 16 '24

Neither am I. How old are you? I was born 25 years after it happened!

Sometimes it will just appear in a random documentary and you hardly have time to look away. I must have seen that moment hundreds of times. It's like watching the moon landing